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Enabling Large Pages for JBoss EAP

The JBoss Enterprise Application Server allows users to deploy and manage Java applications — and part of this management is making sure our Java apps run smoothly. For memory-intensive applications, this can mean enabling optimization features such as large pages, which locks pages in memory for faster retrieval — albeit at the expense of a non-application performance. In this lab, we enable large pages and ensure there are no memory issues in our application.

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Path Info

Level

Beginner

Duration

15m

Published

Jan 24, 2020

Challenge

Enable Huge Pages via the Kernel
To enable huge pages from the kernel, we can use the sysctl command:
```
sudo sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=1
```

Challenge

Enable Large Pages via JBoss EAP

Move into the JBoss EAP home directory:

cd /opt/jboss-eap/

Open the standalone configuration:

sudo vim standalone/configuration/standalone.xml

Add the following under extensions:

    <system-properties>
        <property name="JAVA_OPTS" value="-XX:+UseLargePages"/>
    </system-properties>

Challenge

Restart the Service
1. Restart JBoss EAP:
```
sudo systemctl restart jboss-eap-rhel
```
1. Grep the server log for startup warnings:
```
cat standalone/log/server.log | grep WARNING
```

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